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revered

adjective as in honored

adjective as in sacrosanct

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London’s revered Old Vic is serving up full performances — for as much as £80 pounds — performed live on its stage through Christmas Eve.

That was like a gut punch in the middle of the night to be like, the man you’re working for now wants you to dishonor a man you’ve revered throughout your career.

Paradoxically, the revered “beat” just isn’t impressing investors any more.

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It is hard to change any institution—particularly one as revered as Fortune’s annual ranking of the Most Powerful Women in Business.

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Some of the agency’s most revered scientists vanished from public view after speaking candidly about the virus.

It is the kind of compassion espoused by every world religion and every revered religious leader.

Artists like Mick Jagger and Van Morrison obsessively revered and imitated African-American blues and rock musicians.

Today that singularly revered profession is actually many jobs rolled into one.

Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity.

So, are children revered more for their work because of their talent or for their age?

But Sinzendorff, her revered uncle, had written of him as one whom all the women loved, while he loved only honour.

He is to-day the greatest man in the south of France, universally beloved and revered.

Indeed, the most ordinary white person, is almost revered, while the most qualified colored person is totally neglected.

The sword had become a revered symbol conveying to the departing the hope of divine favour and intercession.

He was so good a man, and so profoundly revered by the Athenians, that they intrusted to him the keys of their citadel.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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